Just wanted to let you all know that I do have a great Tuesdays with TIM post for today, but I have to post it a little later than usual. You see, today at 10am Pacific time the TIM the Movie fan page on Facebook is unveiling a contest in which YOU can win an original drawing of mine!
So, all I can do at this early hour is tease you with it, and encourage you to either visit the TIM the Movie page at 10am Pacific, OR come back here to the blog at that time to check out the art and the rules of play!
In the meantime, if you are a Facebook user, you can CLICK HERE to go to the TIM fan page where you can LIKE us so you can get our official progress reports!
Today is the grand unveiling of the winner of the Cartoon Caption Contest that has been taking place over on the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy Fan Page on Facebook over the past two weeks. Many folks submitted their ideas for what this illustration could be saying, I chose 5 of the best, and then left it up to the fans to vote for which one should win!
Congratulations to Charlie Eldred for his winning caption! To the other four finalists, Robert Bowman, Edward Murphy, Preston Jones and Matthew Schnittker, thank you for your great contributions!
Charlie has won a nice print of this drawing with his own caption that includes a sketch on it by me, along with a signed copy of my children’s book Jonah and the Very Big Fish.
Thank you to all who participated. Come join the Fan Page where other contests will be held in the future!
Congratulations to Charlie Eldred for his clever winning caption!
What MONSTER MONTH could be complete without at least one inclusion of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster? Despite having deeply explored this character in my “Frankenlisa” painting from several months ago (CLICK HERE if you missed it!), once in awhile he keeps rearing his strange flat head amongst my sketches. Here’s a doodle of him created in ink right from the pages of my sketchbook!
Try as he may, Frankie just isn’t coordinated enough for “Thriller.”
If you are a user of Facebook, come join theChad Frye • Illustration Guy fan pagewhere today I have unveiled a new contest open only to registered fans there! The contest is completely free with the prize to win a signed and sketched on print along with a copy of one of my children’s books! So come on over and join in the fun!
Well, two weeks ago I announced a contest that was being held over on the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy Facebook Fan Page. The idea was simply to suggest a good caption for the cartoon drawing I posted. Well, after 95 caption suggestions, I narrowed it down to the five best and then let the fans vote on them.
Congratulations to the winner of our little contest! Bruce Higdon of Tennessee won himself a signed and sketched-in copy of my children’s book Jonah and the Very Big Fish. I have re-posted the cartoon below with Bruce’s caption, and then listed the other 4 finalists below him.
Many thanks to all who played along! Come join the Facebook Fan Page where more contests will be conducted in the future!
“And they say a quarter doesn’t go far, anymore.” Submitted by Bruce Higdon
“Shouldn’t a let Bob install that ‘stimulus package’ . . . .” Submitted by Luanne Jenkins Hurst
“Mrs. MacGuyver . . . I think I found your son.”
Submitted by Kate Adams Smith
“Oy! First, the mechanical pony breaks its leg and we have to shoot it, now this!”
Submitted by Bill Riling
“When you get caught between the moon and new stock boy Vinnie. I know it’s crazy, but it’s true.”
Submitted by Andy Heckathorne
It is time for another CONTEST! Over on Facebook I have a Chad Frye • Illustration Guy Fan Page where from time to time I host contests with real prizes. I’ve given away a couple of drawings so far, and this time I’ll be giving away a copy of my 1998 children’s book Jonah and the Very Big Fish complete with a sketch and autograph inside!
This book illustrated by Chad will be the prize in the new caption contest.
And HOW, pray tell, can you have the opportunity to win such an item? Well, first you have to join Facebook if you are not already among the millions who are regular FB users. Then, join the Fan Page by first going to the page by clicking HERE, and then underneath the image you see there on the left, click on “Become a Fan”.
If you have done both of those things, then you can add your comments to the contest! Just go to the Rocket Ship Caption Contest photo album, read over the rules, and submit your captions! Easy peasy! Contest ends on June 9 at 12 noon P.S.T.!
And here’s the drawing that you can submit a caption for in the contest over on Facebook!
Well, there you have it! Come join the fun over on Facebook!
And just so there is no confusion, I am turning off the comments feature for this blog post. NO CAPTIONS can be left here! Only on the Facebook Fan Page! Thanks!
Over on the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy Fan Page on Facebook, I’ve been running a photo contest for the past month. The instructions were simple – take a photo of yourself with a book, card, poster, piece of art, or even a print-out of something of mine. Be as creative as possible. Photos came in from all over the United States taken anywhere between Hawaii all the way to Ireland! It was really terrific.
One of the early front runners was this picture of Brian Hohlfeld, the executive producer of The Disney Channel’s “My Friends Tigger & Pooh” show taken in Hawaii while holding one of Chad’s Christmas cards.Another early favorite was this photo by Andy Heckathorne who works at Penn State University. He has Chad’s recent Frankenstein head attached to the statue of Joe Paterno at Beaver Stadium.
All the photos were due this past Monday, and then the real contest began to see how many votes the photos would get from the fellow fans in order to choose a winner. Voting has been fierce this week. The voting started with about five photos being neck in neck, then three of them surged forward with more votes. A quick check to discover that those three photographers were doing some pretty good campaigning for their photos – not at all against the rules.
This sweet photo sent in by Shawn Garzony of South Carolina shows her daughter with Chad’s second book, “My Bible” (published by Barbour & Co. in 1993). This earned a highly respectable 26 votes for third place.
Then, in just the past day, two pics pulled away on their quest to be first at the finish line. The race has been very exciting with votes coming in from all over the country. First it was one out in front, then the other. The tension was edge-of-your-seat thrilling!
This shot of Michael Boone was sent in by his brother Matt. While standing on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, Michael is holding a sketch of Mushu from Disney’s “Mulan” that Chad drew back in 1998. This had 33 votes.
And then pulling away with just 3 extra votes for a grand total of 36 is our winner, Heather Lynn Lewis Schaub of South Carolina. Heather’s was certainly the most bizarre entry. She managed to acquire a print of a “magic toenail” I drew for a mutual friend who had recently lost a toenail due to long distance running. So Heather got her family together in front of the SC State Capitol Building and took this shot of their feet with the little purple toenail drawing.
This odd, and yet strangely creatively compelling photo by Heather Lynn Lewis Schaub was the winner with 36 votes.
So, what does Heather win for all her trouble? She wins the original gorilla drawing titled The Wingman featured here on the blog in a recent “Drawn & Quoted” column. That’s right, she won an original piece of art! Not too shabby for humiliating her family out in public.
So, are you on Facebook? Do you like Chad’s art here on his BLOG and on his WEBSITE? Come on over and join the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy Fan Page on Facebook where future contests will be held.
Entries came in from students all over the country, and after a tough committee process, the NCSF picked their winner. This year the winning student was Chris Houghton who is a junior at the College for Creative Studies in Michigan. Below is one example of this student’s fine work.
by Chris Houghton, winner of the 2009 NCSF’s Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
These kids really had a great opportunity in applying for this scholarship. They not only win a tidy sum to help with their schooling, but they also win an all expense paid trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s annual Reuben Awards to accept the prize. This year the Reubens will be in my neck of the woods when it comes to Hollywood for the Memorial Day weekend.
Also, the applicants get their work before a fine group of professionals who thoroughly discuss the entrants and their work. I know this because as a board member of the NCSF, I was one of the judges. Some others on the judging panel with me included Rick Kirkman (“Baby Blues” comic strip), Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine), Daryl Cagle (MSNBC.com politcal cartoonist), Michael Ramirez (Investor’s Business Daily political cartoonist & last year Pulitzer winner), Sandra Lundy (“Between Friends” comic strip), and other fellow freelance cartoonists John Kovaleski (who spearheaded the committee), Sean Parkes, and Ken Alvine.
The NCSF is a fully licensed non-profit organization, and can always use your tax deductible donations for things like this scholarship, helping to further other items of importance to the field of cartooning, and helping out cartoonists in need. Click HERE to visit the NCSF website!
And to see the full press release on the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship winner with even more samples of his art, please click HERE!
